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03-Titel-1 + Bold Master of Occus 03-titel-1 + bold Master of Occus 03-titel-4 As aliquia natum quo ea que quiae cum rorae. Regional Resources and Democratic Secessionism Kai Gehring & Stephan A. Schneider CIS Working Paper No. 90 Center for Comperative and International Studies (CIS) Regional Resources and Democratic Secessionism Kai Gehring ∗ Stephan A. Schneider ∗∗ 31st October 2016 Abstract: We show that economic concerns revolving around region-specific resources are crucial to understanding the success and failure of democratic secessionist movements. Based on a simple voting model, qualitative evidence from numerous countries indicates a clear relationship between the value of regional resources and the electoral success of the respective regionalist parties. We then make use of a natural experiment in the United Kingdom, where the discoveries of oil off the Scottish coast allow us to implement a difference- in-differences design with Scotland as the treatment group and Wales as a suitable counterfactual. Using election results at the constituency level over the period from 1945 to 2001, we document a significant positive effect on the vote share of the Scottish National Party of about 2 percentage points for an additional giant oil discovery. The causal interpretation of this effect is further supported by exploiting the exogenous change in oil prices in a triple-differences design. Keywords: Secession, Separatism, Size of Nations, Resources, Nationalism, Economic Voting JEL Codes: H77, N9 Acknowledgments: We thank Toke Aidt, Alberto Alesina, Bruno Caprettini, Axel Dreher, Florian Foos, David Hemous, Jan-Egbert Sturm, Hans-Joachim Voth, and the members of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge for comments, as well as participants at the PEUK Conference in Oxford 2016, the EPCS 2016 in Freiburg, and the Development Conference “Goettinger Schule” in Göttingen, and seminars at the political science and the economics department of the University of Zürich. We also thank Christiane Baumeister, Myron K. Horn, and Pippa Norris for sharing their data as well as James D. Hamilton and Valerie A. Ramey for valuable suggestions. Valerie Baldinger, Janine Albiez, and Michael Andrews pro- vided excellent research assistance and support. Stephan Schneider conducted part of this research at the University of Cambridge with financial support from the Cusanuswerk. ∗ Kai Gehring, University of Zürich: [email protected]. Webpage: http://www.kai-gehring.net. ∗∗ Stephan A. Schneider, Heidelberg University: [email protected]. 1 INTRODUCTION 1 “The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ ‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’ ” Matthew 25, 8-9 – The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins 1 Introduction Many regions around the world have experienced a surge in the vote share and success of secessionist parties, while others with comparable levels of cultural heterogeneity have not. This cannot be explained by the existing literature on the optimal size of nations which has mostly focused on scale advantages like improved trade opportunities as the main benefits from larger states, and preference heterogeneity as the most severe factor benefiting secession and smaller entities. Those factors are obviously important, but we argue that regional resources and their changing value are crucial to explain the success of secessionist parties. This connects to an existing literature which shows that in developing countries increases in natural resource wealth in individual regions affect state stability and democracy (see, e.g., Arezki & Brückner, 2012, 2011). The emerging distributional conflicts often culminate in armed conflicts and severe civil wars (e.g., Collier, 2010; Rosser, 2006; Ross, 2004a), which is fortunately unlikely in countries with a stable democratic system. Instead, we argue that secessionist tendencies find their expression in a different way: the redistribution and usage of the gains from regional resources can be instrumentalized by secessionist parties to boost their vote shares. Our simple probabilistic voting model builds on the assumptions and relevant factors highlighted by au- thors like Alesina & Spolaore(1997) and augments them by integrating differences in resource endowment and their redistribution across regions. This also relates our study to the literature on fiscal federalism and within-country transfers (e.g., Dixit & Londregan, 1998; Persson & Tabellini, 1996). We use extensive anecdotal evidence to demonstrate that changes in resource value are decisive in influencing the rise and fall of secessionist movements around the world. Ranging from Flanders in Belgium, to Québec in Canada, and Greenland in Denmark, the cases we describe document the widespread relevance of regional resources. Moreover, they demonstrate that regional resources should not narrowly be defined as containing only nat- ural resources, but rather that regional differences in human capital, institutional quality or geography are also relevant. Based on Alesina & Spolaore(1997) and Persson & Tabellini(2002), we derive analytically that increases in the value of regional resources is related to a higher approval rate for secession, which should be visible, ceteris paribus, in a higher vote share for secessionist parties. Based on the model, we identify the challenges and necessary prerequisites for identifying a causal effect of regional resources. While the qualitative examples underline the general importance and external valid- 1 INTRODUCTION 2 ity of the hypothesized mechanism, they only provide anecdotal and correlational evidence how regional resources and changes in their value help to fuel secessionist movements. Ideally, we want to compare two regions that exhibit comparable trends with regard to those factors that we identified as influencing support for secession; for instance, preference heterogeneity from the majority in the country. Moreover, both regions must feature a comparable secessionist party and the vote share of these parties is required to follow a common trend in absence of the treatment. We identify such a case in the United Kingdom and make use of the fact that the bulk of the UK’s North Sea oil reserves was exclusively found off the Scottish coast to compare the performance of the two major secessionist parties in Scotland and Wales in a difference-in-differences (DiD) framework. This is feasible as extensive evidence supports the notion that the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Welsh Plaid Cymru as well as both regions in general are suffi- ciently comparable for our purpose (see, e.g., Levy, 1995). Moreover, the first Scottish oil discoveries in 1970 were an unexpected and considerably large exogenous shock (MacKay & Mackay, 1975), which makes them salient to voters and allows a clear distinction between pre- and post-treatment period. Our analysis, based on a panel dataset containing 1883 observations from UK general elections and by- elections on the constituency-level which we assembled for the 1945 to 2001 period, exploits this natural experiment. While oil did not play an important role in the political calculus of secessionist parties in Scotland and Wales initially, the situation fundamentally changed for the Scots by the initial oil discoveries in ‘their’ maritime area. Hereafter, politicians from the SNP have tried to instrumentalize the large potential oil revenues as an argument for Scottish independence, and support for the party has increased sharply (McGuinness et al., 2012).1 The slogan “It’s Scotland’s oil”, invented in 1972 and often quoted even today (Harvie, 1995), reflects concisely how politically relevant the oil discoveries were and still are for the SNP (Collier & Hoeffler, 2006; MacKay & Mackay, 1975). Our results show that voters are indeed receptive to these arguments: in elections after oil discoveries, the SNP’s vote share significantly increased by about two percentage points for each additional giant oil discov- ery. The result is robust to various different specifications, is further supported by exploiting the exogenous changes in world oil prices and a placebo test, and varies with constituency characteristics to some degree. This augments the qualitative evidence that we collected for numerous other countries, and highlights that regional resources are a crucial factor to better understand the success and failure of secessionist parties. 1 Support for independence provisionally culminated in the referendum held on 18th September 2014, in which the Scottish people faced the choice of separating from the rest of the United Kingdom or staying unified. Even though a close majority of the Scottish people voted against independence, the fact that an independence referendum was held in a stable West-European country with a wealthy society is remarkable in itself. The official electoral outcome of the referendum is as follows; yes: 1,617,989 (44.5 percent); no: 2,001,926 (55.5 percent); turnout: 84.6 percent. The question asked on the ballot paper was: “Should Scotland be an independent country?” (see http://www.scotreferendum.com/information/, last accessed on 31st October 2016). But Scotland is no isolated case: in Québec, for instance, an independence referendum closely failed the majority in 1995 (Holitscher & Suter, 1999; Lynch, 2003). 2 LINKING RESOURCES AND SECESSIONISM 3 The paper is structured as follows: section2 relates our contribution to the existing literature on seces- sionism
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